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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 



THAT CALENDAE CLOCK. 



Last December one of our friend- ar.,v> d me what 

 I could get 100 calendar clocks for. After some cor- 

 respondence t learned I could get them so as to sell 

 to our bee friends at the price given below. The 

 following is a description of them. 



The clock is S-day, spring strike. The height is 

 twenty inches, and the diameter of the dials eight 

 Inches. The case is beautifully finished in ma- 

 hogany, rosewodd, and black walnut. The works 

 are heavy steel and brass. The calendar tells, 

 in large plain figures and words, the day of the 

 week, the day of the month, the month of the 

 year, and makes all the changes for the differ- 

 ent numbers of days in each month, even to giv- 

 ing February 29 days one year in four, without a 

 single motion or bit of prompting on j'our part, only 

 to wind the clock once a week. If the clock runs 

 down by carelessness, you can set the hands of the 

 calendar just as easily as you set the hands of a 

 common clock. This latter feature is a late inven- 

 tion. Everj- clock is guaranteed by the Seth Thomas 

 factory, and their name attitched to any clock is 

 about the highest praise yoii can give it. Send on 

 the $7.50, and you can have your clock by return ex- 

 press. If ordered with other goods, they can go 

 safely by freight, as each one is securely "boxed by 

 itself. They will be shipped from here. 



Feb, 1, 1881. A. I. HOOT, Medina, O. 



Feh. OtTj, ISSl.— The above was given in our Feb. 

 Gleaninos, but now the following is at hand, from 

 the Seth Thomas Clock Co.:— 



New York, N. Y. , Feb. 2, 18S1. 

 A. I. Root, Esq. :— 



Dear Sii-,— We hereby withdraw our quotation madp. you Dec. 

 21, 1880, for our No 5 Parlor Calendar, in lots of 100. We do 

 this because we understand you advertise to retail tlicm for less 

 than the trade can buy them. Yours rcspoctrully, 



Seth Thomas Clock: Co. 



You will see, my friends, that my good intentions 

 in the way of selling you clocks at a low price are, 

 for the present, frustrated in spite of any thing I can 

 do. The regular wholesale price of the clocks to 

 dealers is $8.00, and my offer was a little under this. 



I am very sorry for this unlooked-for mishap, and 

 all I can do now is to make the price of the deck 

 f 8.50, instead of $7.50. 



P. S.— Several have asked for alarms added to 

 these clocks. With the experience I have had as a 

 jeweler, 1 would not advise such an arrangement, 



but would rather have the small nickel clock we ad- 

 vertise for an alarm clock. This can be carried 

 about anywhere like a watch, and can therefore, if 

 you choose, be placed right at your head, in your 

 sleeping apartment. Price $3.25; by mail, |3 40. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The 13 Waterbury watches all sold at a good profit, 

 and have given good satisfaction to every one. 

 Arcadia, Wis., Feb. 7, 1881. B. A. Morgan. 



The A B C is, in my estimation, the most valuable 

 work of the kind published. I would not think of 

 excbanging it for five times the cost, and do without. 



Somerset, Pa., Jan. 31, 1881. A. H. Ferneh. 



I must say the A B C is the best book on the sub- 

 ject I ever read. Jt explains every thing so plainly, 

 that any child can understand it by the aid of the 

 nice engravings it contains. Oh how I wish I could 

 spend a busy summer day in your apiary! I bought 

 this book for my neighbor; but if I could not get 

 another, I could hardly let it go. I learned more on 

 one page than ten times the cost of the book, and 

 that is lit making hives, frames, and sections. 



Wm. K. Deisher. 



Kutztown, Berks Co., Pa., Jan. 39, 1881. 



Dear Sir.'— When writing to you, I say "DearSir;" 

 but I feel like saying "Dear Brother." Many thanks 

 for promptitude. Wii. W. MoClaran. 



Marshall, Tex., Jan. 26, 1881. 



[Say "Dear Brother" by all means, dear brother 

 M.; and when the time comes that you get tried 

 with me, and I need reproving, then bv all means 

 remember to say, "dear brother Root," when you 

 administer the reproof.] 



I have succeeded, by disposing ot some unprofita- 

 ble property and close attention to business (outside 

 of the bee business which has been more of a 

 recreation than serious business), in freeing my- 

 self of the greater part of my indebtedness, and 

 I trust that, if I ain favored by a kind Prov- 

 idence, in another year or two I will be a free 

 man once more; and when i attain ihat long- 

 striven-for condition, I seriously contemplate giving 

 my whole attention to the bee business, trusting 

 that, by that time, I shall have attained sulficient 

 knowledge and practical experience to enable me to 

 conduct it successfully. 



Now, why have I written in this manner to one 

 who has never seen, and probably cares nothing for, 

 me? Simply for the reason that I do believe you 

 care for me and my success; not, perhaps, as an in- 

 dividual, but as one of a large class whom j'ou have, 

 by precept and example, induced to try a new pur- 

 suit— a pursuit that can not help, in the very nature 

 of things, if he be observant and thoughtful, leading 

 him to a better acquaintance with nature, and 

 through nature to the Author and Giver of all good. 



I have been for years trying to live a Christian 

 life, and 1 assure you the Home Papers have helped 

 me no little, and I am sure I am only one of many 

 thousands who can thankfully say the same; and 

 from my heart I say, go on; follow every leading of 

 Providence, and success will surely crown your ef- 

 forts here and hereafter. If I were as well assured 

 that I were where I could be the most useful, I 

 would be happier, and necessarily a better man; but 

 "'tis a long lane that has no turning," and I think I 

 see indications of a change, and that for the better; 

 it seems at times to be so unwise to labor so hard 

 and long for success in mere money-making, that 

 dwarfs and numbs and deadens allot our better feel- 

 ings. But pardon me for detaining you so long with 

 merely personal things. Put this in the fire, and I 

 will not trouble you in this line for at least another 

 year, if ever. But take courage in your good work 

 inasmuch as you have helped one poor fellow to 

 strive more earnestly to "do justly, love mercy, and 

 walk humbly before God." E. T. Flanagan. 



Belleville, Ills., Feb. 5, 1881. 



[May God bless you for your kind words, friend F. 

 I do remember you, and pray for you ; and T have 

 thought of you every time I see anything from you 

 ever since you told me about your business troubles. 

 Try now to help others, in the way God has so gra- 

 ciously helped you, and make the beautiful little 

 text you close with, your guiding star through life.l 



